sugar cube

noun — 2 senses

sugar cube

nounalso spelled sugar-cube
1

Piece of sugar in the shape of a cube (or approximate cube), often used for coffee or tea.

  • The new building was dubbed 'the sugar cube', owing to the white tiles which were supposed to adorn the exterior of the cube-shaped structure.2025 February 19, Chris Howe, “Euston: Euston: a work in progress”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 46:
Related terms
cube sugar, loaf sugar, sugar-loaf

sugar-cube

noun
1

Rare Rare form of sugar cube.

  • The professor meanwhile opened the drawer again, producing a square cardboard box. He removed its cover, sighed and took out some sugar-cubes and put two in each cup. “The captain wishes to study,” he murmured reminiscently. His eyes folllowed^([sic]) the sugar-cubes as they slowly settled to the bottom.1978, Shammai Golan, translated by Reuven Ben Yosef, “The Death of Uri Peled”, in Yael Lotan, editor, Ariel: A Quarterly Review of Arts and Letters in Israel, number 47, Jerusalem: Cultural and Scientific Relations Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4:
  • The addition of enemy bombers helps to make the game more interesting from a difficulty point of view, although the demo mode – which did not exist on the B-bit games – does nothing to promote game content. The Spit merely takes off, shoots a few sugar-cubes at nothing in particular and tends.1988 June, “Merlin Still Casts a Spell: Spitfire 40”, in Oliver Frey, editor, The Games Machine: Computer & Electronic Entertainment, number 7, Ludlow, Shropshire: Newsfield, →ISSN, →OCLC, “Reviews” section, page 60, column 4:
1 more example
  • He left his room and went back into the kitchen. There was no bread. He took some rusks, an orange, some sugar-cubes, the remains of a bar of chocolate.1991, Tony Duvert, translated by D. R. Roberts, part II, in When Jonathan Died, London: GMP Publishers, →ISBN, page 170:

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